Many Gitmo detainees had flimsy ties to terror
Little or no threat, dozens or more men were imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on the basis of revenge, bounty payments, or fabricated evidence.
An eight-month McClatchy Newspapers investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that Akhtiar was one of dozens of men -- and, according to several officials, perhaps hundreds -- whom the United States has imprisoned wrongfully in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
